Singing // The USS Alabama!

04/17/2015

Hello friends! I am excited to share with you our long-anticipated post on our trip down to the USS Alabama Memorial Park! We girls were invited a while back to sing for the 50th Anniversary of the WWII Crew Reunion this past weekend. How honored and blessed we were by our time there is hard to put into words! But I’ll try and give you the best story of it that I can 🙂

We had safe travels down, and were so blessed by the beautiful lushness of the southern atmosphere! All the trees were GREEN! It was simply marvelous! Our hearts grow fonder and fonder of the south each time we travel down there.

Saturday the 11th was our big day to sing for the WWII Crew, and the crowds who came to visit the magnificent ship. Well, as it turns out, we girls got food poisoning early (3:00 am early!) that morning, which made for a pretty rough start; but we were beyond blessed by the organizers of the event who practically waited on us hand and foot throughout the day in between shows. Southern hospitality was really shown at its brightest to us in that event, and God gave us girls the clear voices and adrenaline to get through our shows without a hitch, however exhausted we might have been afterwards.

One of the most fantastic parts of the day was the WWII Bomber fly-over reenactment! Some American planes from that era were painted to look like Japanese WWII aircraft, and flew over the ship as the living history crew shot at them with machine guns (it was all fake, of course 😉 ). The thrill of it all was so exhilarating! If you’ll notice in the image above, you might be able to see the second man in the plane in focus waving! That was quite the surprise to me when I looked at the shot afterwards. It made it all the more special, really 🙂

Ironically enough, we girls were so busy getting our pictures taken by everyone else (from magazine and Newspaper reporters, to living history crew members and the general public), that we hardly got the chance to get our picture with our own camera, let alone of the ship! We did get a couple of videos, however, of a few of our shows; so if you subscribe to our YouTube channel, you might just be able to watch those in the near future!

We girls were so very honored and privileged to have gone down and sung for the vets left of the original WWII Crew, as well as the rest of the public who visited! Thank you, Living History Crew for having us and supporting us as you have! Thank you to the vets for your service! Soli Deo Gloria!

Have you ever been to the USS Alabama?

xo,

-Charlotte, for the B. Sisters

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Charlotte is the Art Director, Web Designer and Developer of the blog. She loves expressing her creative side through photography, web & graphic design, sewing unique, creative clothing, singing opera & broadway music, and playing the piano.

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It sounds like you all had an amazing experience!! I have to say though, getting food poisoning on the day you are going to sing must have been horrible! I’m so glad you all were able to continue though!

The photography is stunning! I love the photo with the sky, trees and bird, the color on the trees looks soooo nice! And the photo with the guy waving is the best. You all look so beautiful, especially after having such an early morning and the food poisoning. I love your outfits and your hats are so perfect.

Oh you girls look so beautiful! And your outfits are awesome, I especially like the hats. I wish I could hear you sing sometime 🙂
The scenery is stunning, I just love long car rides when one is surrounded by such loveliness.
Thanks for the lovely post!

Girls I’m so happy for you. What an awesome venue, and from the news video it looks like you put on an amazing performance! And way to go on pressing on through your food poisoning! The show must go on, eh?
And you look absolutely gorgeous in your sailor outfits. That’s pretty much all there is to say about that. 😀 I liked the stripes indicating “rank” on your sleeves! (Learned that tidbit on your YouTube clip).
Yep, my heart grows fonder and fonder of the South the longer I live in it! 🙂 The green makes me so happy. SO happy. Welcome, warm weather! Y’all come back down here soon, and make you route pass through my hometown so I can give all three of you hugs. OK? OK.

I’ve never been to the USS Arizona, but a few years ago my family lived in Hawaii. We ALWAYS went to visit Pearl Harbor. That was a favorite place of ours! =)
We also got the opportunity to go to the USS Missouri for their Fourth of July program. It was fun to hear the Big Band music in the backround as we watched the fireworks! It was so neat!

Oh, your photos are so lovely! How fun it must be! I am particularly fond of the south (I may be a bit biased as I live here!), so I am so happy to hear that you like a little bit more each time you visit. I hope you all are feeling better as well! That could not have been fun.

Yay! I’m glad everything went well and you had a great time, despite having food poisoning in the morning (yuck 🙁 )!
The plane reenactment looks exciting, and your performance costumes look fabulous! 😀

This sounds wonderful. My parents visited the USS Alabama back in February. I loved seeing all of the pictures from their visit, so I was even more excited about your visit. Will we get to hear more about your outfits in the future?! (Please :))

Congatulatios on your engagement. Look forward to hearing you ladies in concert this April and May at the Ohio Veterans Home and the court house steps in Georgetown,Ohio. Hope you have a large crowd. I enjoyed your concerts at West Union and the Broen County Fair.

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